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NBA's Jason Collins Reveals He's Gay

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Kevin Clark

Updated April 29, 2013 4:25 p.m. ET

Jason Collins, a 12-year NBA veteran, most recently for the Washington Wizards, became the first active athlete from one of the four major American pro-sports leagues to publicly reveal he is gay with a first-person account in a Sports Illustrated cover story this week.

"I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay," Collins wrote in the story.